While she found the routines "barely more strenuous than brewing a pot of tea," Yoffe also highlights LaLanne's "winning, evangelical confidence" in his female viewers. "He spoke directly to these women, and he wanted their lives to be better," she writes.

LaLanne seems to have loved the ladies till the very last: In
an interview last September with ESPN
, he attributed his health and longevity to a lifelong devotion to "clean thoughts and dirty girls."